Savannah River Site builds final nuclear waste vault for cleanup

Savannah River Site workers are building a storage space the size of a four-story building to contain the last of the site’s Cold War-era nuclear waste.

Being built with concrete and steel, Saltstone Disposal Unit 12 is expected to be the last large storage container for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management to safely dispose of the waste, according to Savannah River Mission Completion.

Cleanup: SRS cuts 300 waste canisters to speed nuclear waste disposal…

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